Abstract:
It is recognized that business models provides ways
to explore new business ideas and hence design and
redesign operational business processes. Business model
describes who are involved in the business and what
resources are exchange between them. Process model
on the other hand, shows ordering of exchange of
resources, communication among agents to coordinate
these resource exchanges. Process model is use to trace
and coordinate value exchanges.
The business model used in this work is e3-value
model. The e3-value model was originally designed to
support the explorations of new business networks. The
paper contributes by addressing the research questions
of identifying: e3-value model elements that needs to be
mapped into the process model, essential sub processes
that should be in a process model with respect to the
e3-value model and nature of the process patterns. The
paper provides answers to these research questions. The
paper also discuss a method to transforms a business
model to a process model in a systematic way. Such a
method would provide support for traceability,
evaluation of design alternatives.
When two agents are exchanging resources in a value
transaction, the order of exchange of resources would be
vary from one business case to another business case. It
depends on the contractual agreement setup between the
involved business partners. The derivation of a process
model from a business model is considered to be a
nondeterministic design process. There would be
different ways of achieving same goal. As such there
would be different process models that achieve the same
goal. Process patterns are ready made solutions to a
certain problem in a specific problem domain. Process
patterns are using as a candidate to build the process
model. It is up to the designer to choose the appropriate
patterns to construct process model. The selection is
depends upon costs and benefits. He could compare the ...
